The Sun. — London, England, 1818-03-28 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN. FRENCH Pit PERS. CIL OF DEPUTIES, MoNDAY, MARCH BUDGET. The Count lictiosoT read, the Report from the Committee on the Budget respecting the Ways owl Means, It took up three • hours reading.— Tile result is, that the estimated charge amounts t 0 97-1,000,000 francs, and the Revenue to , UOO > OW francs : the deficiency, therefore, is 221,000,000, which to be provided for by a Loan. Fir the purpose of raising the Lddn, it is iii-orsed to alienate 16,000,000 francs of Rentes. IVith reference to the late Loins, the Repor t states; that in the first two, the Contractors netted 161 i pet' tent. profit ; and that in the third, owing to the great rise in the Funds, their profits were enormous. At this phrase, we are told in a pa renthesis, there . was agitation in the Assembly.— Tbe Report, hoWever, proceeds to observe, that the obligation of borrowing was imposed by the law of necessity, and thetetore the Government obtained the best terms they could ; that the ef fect of these Loans had been to increase public credit and confidence, and that in consequence French capitalists were now prepared to join in any future Leans. The Report then proceeds to notice the pecuniary claims on France, and the continuance of the Amoy of Occupation hi the fol lowi•ig terms : " Fully Persuaded that there can V!, on longer either credit Of revenue, or perhaps existence, for Prance, except by means of an alleviation of the burden which overwhelms her, your Committee were desirous of ascertaining the period of our financial liberation, which roast be inseparable from our po litical liberation. " They wished above all to be enabled to communicate to you some positive information respecting the claims of foreigners upon France, claims which, from their amount, tend to pa ralyze all our operations, to destroy credit, and to impress npon the peace itself a character of hostility. " Your Committee addressed themselves to the King's Mi nisters, in whom we fonnd hearts entirely French, but who have not been able entirely to satisfy us. " Front the terms of the Treaty of the 20th November, the deliverance of our territory from foreip troops can only be the result of a determination which the Allied Sovereigns reserved to themselves the option of adopting, after the first years of occupation. " !tut Can this result he doubtful ? These Sovereigns will enable policy by subjecting it to justice. The occupation of our territory cannot be prolonged fur two years longer, with out making France a prey to agitations menacing to Europe. " France is tranquil, she wishes for peace—she wishes it as decidedly as she has ever made war. Since the Treaty of the 20th November she has gone through the greatest miseries, I,itt with the most heroice patience, or rather let us say with magnanimity. •' The foreigner who resides in the midst of as is astonished at not discovering those factions which exist only in the newspapers of his country, or in the deranged heads of some notice orators. He sees a power acting with independence; e King adored as a father, respected as a sage ; Princes who reflect the image of the Royal virtues; a nation whose noble character has been purified by adversity, too proud ever to be subjugated, but become :too wise to disturb the peace of. the world. " The Sovereigns must be struck with the fidelity with which the Treaty of the 40th November has been executed, under circumstances of rigour so new to France. They Ste France, such as she is, and we cannot doubt they will acknowledge, that by her noble attitude in adversity she de serves well of Europe and of themselves. " There remains, Messieurs, a final motive 'for'conviction upon this point. France has reached that degree of exhaus tion that it would be impossible.for her longer to support the 17urdens which hare pressed upon her for the last three years. It is our duty to declare this to you, because the examination which we have made during the last three months has fully convinced us of it. Here, therefore, is the limit of our sacri fices, because it is the limit of our means. " We may therefore reckon upon the retirement of the fo reign troops by the end of the present year. " The settlement of the amount of the claims of foreigners upon France is under negociation ; but there is reason to hope that you will be acquainted with the results before the end of the Session, and that it will put an end to the exag gerations which bare a very serious effect upon our credit.— It is necessary, however, to provide the meams for the current service, otherwise every thing would be compromised, es - en hope." The Report then proceeds to state, with regard to the Loan that the Committee propose to substitute the phrase, to open Login, instead of that in the Projet, to receive inscriptions to the amount of 16,000,000 }tunics. The Committee also propose, that, in future, the financial year shall commence from the lat July. After repeating the necessity for relieving France from her present burdens, the Report concludes as follows: " Let us hope that the Allied Sovereigns will, for the sake of the peace of the world, listen to the wish of the French nation,which emanating at once from the Palace and the Cot ta,ge, including alteonditions and all opinions, proves, by its energetic unanimity, that whatever may be thought of a great nation under the clouds of misfortune, it does not lose the consciousness eith of its dignity or its strength." 'rile discussion on the Budget was appointed to commence on Monday next. [lt is tint unworthy of remark, that for the first time in the French Budget the sums receired by the Ministry of Police from the Public Journals, and for licensing Gaming-houses are included in the amount of the Public Revenue'.] Further Extracts from these Papers will be found in our last page. HU3SEY.—By information received yesterday in a circular letter Irons a Magistrate in the West of England, Hussey is traced by a most accurate description to have been in that part of the coin); try, and from measures which have been taken, the public may hourly expect to hear of his being in custody. MR. EniTort,—At this festival time, the mind is naturally led to consider the superstitious .ob• servances of the Romish Church :—and as its 1.4- lowers are so strenuously labouring for its re•esta• blishment :in our Protestant Country, wimay very seasouithly consider the mo!ive, the origin ; anti the effect of its Pagan rituals. Had ❑ot your Cdtrespondent, LANFRANC, dis appointed us by the too abrupt conclusion of his must useful labours, 1 should not, Sir, have as sumed my pen. Put the voice .of the weak is at least better than the silence of the strong. In the following observations, a few of those ceremonies which Popery blended into the Chris tian Religion, will he noticed only as they arose from the ceremonies of Paganism, and were per- verted to its purpo,es. The heathen Saturnalia were not only cele brated at the same season as the Feast of the Na tivity, but the ItonVanists to this day preserve the customs of P agan H o me. Not merely in their 'castings, but in the peculiar characteristic of entertaining their servants, and waiting upon tilt m. In France, one of the Ser vants at Court is chosen King, and the King-and his Nobles serve him at table. So likewise in the German Universities; where a King is elected, and the other Students wait upon hits. In our Popish times, the Lord of Misrule was appointed For the same purpose. And in their Debaucheries ; which, gross as they were in Pagan Rome, are at least equally gross in Rome Papal. Witnes the Carnival! THE PURIFICATION.—Thi, answers, in time and in manner, to the Feast of Lights, which was instituted commemorative of the Rape of Proser- pine; when the people walked about the city with candles, as Ceres searched after her daughter.— They did this also on the calends of February, in honour of Juno, that she might obtain for them victory for her son Mars. BEATUS RHENANUS, and Pope INNOCENT, acknowledge this to be the origin of their Candlemas. Martinmas is celebrated by the Romanist: with drinking and jollity ; as the Romans had their Vinalia in - honour of Bacchus. Each festival is at the season of broaching the new wine :—though I do not say, that The modern Romans pray to he God of the Bottles at this time, though they honour hini abundantly. In 1179, Juppa fell a prey to the Saracens, by reason of its Popish garrison getting drunk in honour of St. MARTIN. St. John the Baptist.—The bon-fires and • the dances used at this festival are derived from hea thenism. The former imitate the ancient custom of purifying the air against the pestilential breath, &c. of the flying Serpents ;, the latter imitate the Palilia of ancient Rome, wherein the people danced and leaped through the Ames. This was done to obtain a fruitful summer. ish Wednesday.—ln the earliest times of hea tl►enism, ashes were sprinkled on the head in token of grief : so did Hercules when he beard of the death of Pratlus, and Priam for the loss of Hector. ltog,ation Week answers to those heathen festi vals called Robigalia, which were held in the spring, to obtain-the favour of the Gods on tlia fields and fruits. lIADRIA:gus .lustu• confesses the Rogation IVeek to be derived from these, and though part of his book was condemned, and put into the Index Expurgatorius, this confession was permitted to stand, and thereby recognized for true. St. Philip and St. James. Mity-day.—On this day was celebrated the feast of the harlot Flora, in honour of whom the people carried green boughs, and danced about the streets, and prac tised all rn9nner of debauchery. The May Games carry with them their.own parallel. And of the Saints' days in general, it is to be observed that their institution is derived from Pa ganism. Num divided the year into months, and the months into days • and these were coiled Festi, or religions clays ; Profesti, or common days ; and Intercisis, or half-holidays—(6ys, cut in two). So the modern Romans have their Saint's-days, their working-days, and their half-holidays for some Saints, who are not important enough to have a day to themselves. In fact, the year would not be sufficiently long for the Romish Hagiology, and therefore the Papists are obliged to quarter their Saintlings upon one anoiher. I trust, Sir, not more for the sake of reason than of religion, they will find no Quarter in the Protestant Empire of Great Britain, and that she will refuse every and any emancipation to Rome's p i wi t y, which would bring in its train Rome's heathenism. ESTO NIEMOR. On Wednt 3:lay night the bleaching -grounds be longing to Messrs. Kilburn, of Carshalton, were visited by a gang of thieves (fourth tithe this year), who carried off linen in a bleached and unbleached state, of considerable value. *.** Fur the LITERARY REVIEW, see the Last Page. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. THEATRE ROYAL, DRU RYILA N ?..—(third time), Rob Roy, the Gregarach : Rob Roy Macgregor, Mr. H. Johnston ; Helen Macgregor, Mrs. Glover. After which, The Re vier*. . . THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT.GARIIENT.--FaZies • Girildi Fazio, Mr C. Ketuble; Bianca, Mks O'Neill. After which, The Libertine. Parliament it is difficult to say. lie was ;rider' an able and an enterprising Officer, and, with bis military talents, he might fairly have expected to rise in his profession, if there had notireen some . thing in his political character that opposed advancement. Ile first came before the world ill a_work which excited a strong interest, as it ac cused BUONAPARTIC of poisoning his own trour at Jaffa, and of having destroyed in cold-blO many thousands of people whose country he bad° without provocation, and in violation of treaties, wantonly invaded. These horrid facts _have slaci been established upon indisputable evidence, pet Sir Itoeatur WILSON thinks proper to retract, without stating his reasons to the world, aS I ' 6 ought to do, and simply desires a Mr. HALL, %% 41° was present at the Meeting on Thursday, to 2W ° that '' Sir ROBERT WILSON bad with much mall' liness and candour declared that he had been de', ceived !" Can Mr. HALL or Sir ROBIIRT conceive that this statement will justify so gross a recants' tion. If Sir ROBERT advanced so horrid a charg e without full proof of the dreadful fact, and un i t upon such information as Mr. HALL San " turned out erroneous," be was rash, and indeed 0 05 ! pitiably, if not criminally, credolotts. But the Itti r ' rible facts have since been abundantly confirme d ' and yet Sir ROBERT chuses to persevere in WS re" cantation. This is, by no means a satisfactory erC e planation to the Public at large, and we trust that it will not be snore so the Electors of Southwar k ' But Air. HALL stated that this " error " of Sir Itn . BERT, as lie calls it, had been " completely oblite' rated by that event which all Europe had view ed with admiration." And what was that even! ii The escape of a French traitor, by the assistance Sir ROBERT ; who had a lucky escape himself , in not suffering on a scaffold for such an outrage °f law, in a country at peace with his own, Stlc i; was the lenity of the F renc h G overnment , %c hic probably would not have been exercised by any ur be r upon earth, an d t h e F renc h G overnment i s rattle r entitled to admiration for its respect to tl i ! s country, than Sir ROBERT IVILSON for 10° 4 accomplished th e esca p e o f a T ra i tor to his lawf ul Monarch. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT and MO' NEY, it seems, have promised their influen ce 1 support of Sir R OBERT; b u t as th e on e could linc e get his-brother a seat, n o r th e o th er regal'' for himself in the same Borough, little dependen ce can be placed on th e ir ass i s t ance , exc ept in t h e efforts of their followers to excite conflisicrn riot, and worse mischief. Surely the good sense of the people will exert itself in all quarters , (l i the ensuing General Election, in the choice men of true public spirit, and such as have a te a attachment to our unrivalled Constitution Church and State, otherwise the Country may " cursed by such a JACOBIN HOUSE OF COMMON S 811 will only f o st er T ra it ors , an d overw helm us witl, all the horrors of a French Revolution. A Flanders Mail, arrived last night, Or lDins the following article : tinfg II FRANKFORT, MARCH 17.—According to the last aCCO- from Paris, th e v a l ua ti on o f t h e debts to he liquid ated I finished—they amount to the en o rm ous sum o f 00 1 .4 „" S° ; Seven Ilantlced Milli ons of Francs." , Prince LEOPO I M returns to Claremont no the 3011 i instant from Weymouth. His Serene '.▪ "" t lic i ness will prob a bly vi s i t t h e C ont i n ent n course of the summer. The Royal Couple, Prince Homeena • t o ll : a r t ri I t l i C ie etS p E ßl L N l Z c A e B i E t T E H: s Forest. a On Thursday Baron ONAGHTEN had an °t 'e, ence of the PRINCE REGENT at Calltoll-11°-05r, nd will Afterwards the Baron left town for Wi,; (15 0 0 C it o as tt s ag t e h o e i h n ol : 6-11(175°I. with some dispatches for the Prince of 06 „ - „r lie"lußßG. The Baron returned at a late 11"- at !light. the Yesterday evening, soon after six o'clock , , i Prince of HESSE Hosdast:G returned to S. J 01 10" Palace from Windsor, when Marshal Koderfo l Marsh a l G aaNING , wh o h ave l ate l y arri4( ainc" Hesse Romberg, and Baron 0 1 NAGHTasi i With D l: ti i ek s rei S sim e y r o e f n t e H em: DgKl:uncesestibs ifIRLND n 1 sod ye s o tt fGI A "U , C a gs ( ll6lt r: the a: CESTER visited the PRINCE REGENT at C°l. house. c 6t WINCHESTER, MARCH HA wits . me n the f Concert last claming, under the patronage 0. , nr Marchioness of BUCKINGHAM, went off 1 "%: e c• monly well, and was both numerously and re ,"„%; tably attended. Miss CAREW, though she 1 1 - 5 01 slight cold, sung delightfully; she appea ret. v erf ther timid at first, but soon exerted her 1 11- a - 0 1 with good effect : 31)e,was encored in WHITI, / _ - ire pretty ballad of " 0 slumber my darlina, tny, s ;6 l is a knight;" she also sung (and acc " nrie.. l herself on the pianoforte,) HANDEL'S " It r e., / , ert n — c e l plains." BELLAMY sang from HANDEL " ti e f- t lt slued the waters," &c. in his usual style' -fri• TERRAIL, WELSH, and HAWES eminently ow jf e bitted to the gener a l en te r t a i n m en t. it is 414 0'c needless to pass a ny ento g iu t n on C i " left merits, as they ar e s o well known he p at the grand piano. Thi s i s the last Cofi„: t'oo res:` of • the season , and it i s b u t j u stice to Dr • ti". oo and Mr. flAwss to say, that the setae the throughout have been most judicious, ant l del performances most skilful :tad seientifie,. s v e ' serving a co nti nuance of the same liberal P tronage, MATLK Anatven—l Dublin, 1 Holland, I Flanders. Dtis—i. Water ford, 1 Guerosey and Jersey, I Gottenburgh, I Lisbon, I France, 3 Ilatuburgh. PittcE 0 ints IMY AT t 3 per Cent. C0n5........78ifh 5 pErCt.N.Ann. ion 106 1051 Imperial g per Cent. Ann. 771 India Builds. ..... 935. 80s. pr. F STOCKS .wELvr. o'etmcx.. • South Sea Stock - .....861 Ex. Bills. 2(1,.165. 12s. 14s. pr. Ditto, 13:. 15,, pr. Cons. fur Account lIIGH WATER AT LONDON lIRIDOE TO-MORROW. Murning,.lB minutes after 7. Evening, 43 minutes after 7. THE S UN. 9OLEM qUI s DICEHE rALsum AtwEAT LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1818. The attention of our Readers will naturally be dawn to the SRCoND REPORT of the State of the French Finances, of which they will find a sketch in our Paper this day, extracted from the Paris Journals of Tuesday, which arrived last night. It appears that the expences of the current year will not be less than those of the teat. This is an extraordinary tact, as the Country has been relieved of 30,000 of the Al lied Troops. It is extraordinary also, that the French Government should think of raising a nu merous Army while it has many heavy demands upon it, which it would be very difficult for it to settle, even if it did not incur the expence of raising a new Army. We have often animadverted on the impolicy of raising a new Army in the present state of France, which most probably owes its peace and security to the presence of the Allied Troops. Most sincerely must every good man, and every sound Politician, wish to see France assume her proper rank among nations, and be able to support her own independence without an noying other States. But there are at this time many factions in France, and the Jaco bins are always on the watch to rise upon the ruin of all the others. Much as the Ultras have suffered, and much as they are entitled to respect and sympathy, they do not, as we have before said, seem to have profited by experience, and apparently wish to carry matters with too high a hand. The effects of the dreadful Revo lution will be felt for many years to come, and its baneful doctrines have had too mischievous an operation on the lower orders of people in all other States. To the elevation of the rabble in France, may, in a great degree, 1)e imputed the seditious and rebellious movements of the rabble in this country, particularly as they arc incited and excused every day in The Morn ing Chronicle, and other factious Prints, the Conductors of which might, perhaps, have been, and some, we believe, really were, Constitutional Whigs, who wished to support a Monarchical Government, while they resolutely maintained the rights of the representative body of the People. But where are such Constitutional Whigs now to be found among any of our Opposition Prints, which are evidently strongly tinctured with a Ja cobin taint ? But to return to France and her Budget. Let her discharge her debts, and instead of attempting at present to raise a powerful Army, which might be employed in accomplishing her own ruin, wisely entrust herself to the protection of the Allied Forces. What can she have to fear under such protection ?. The same Powers which delivered her from a wicked and ferocious Despot could easily divide and parcel her our among themselves, if they were influenced by am bition or rapacity. In fact, the Allies act as French army, to prevent the country from preying on itself, as well as from disturbing all other States. The removal of that army would be the signal for revolt, and we trust that the British Government, and the Allied Powers in general, will not think themselves bound to the letter of any Treaty contrary to its obvious spirit and general tendency, which require the con tinuance of their troops in France till they can be withdrawn with safety to that country and se curity to the rest of Europe. The Paris Papers of Wednesday last, which svere due this morning, have not conic to band. A number of persons, who :tiled themselves In dependent Voters of the Town and Borough of Southwark, assembled on Thursday night at the Nag's Head Tavern in that place, for the purpose of nominating Sir ROBERT WILSON as a Candidate for the honour of being one of the Representa tives of that ancient Borough. What are the pretensions of Sir Robert Wilson, to o seat in